People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1896 — Jay Gould’s Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Jay Gould’s Philosophy.

The following affair is a reminder that a few years beforehis death, Jay Gould said that “Capital had nothing special to fear from the laboring men’s organizations, for, if the worst comes to the -worst, “one half the laboring men can be hired to cut the throats of the other half.” Killed for Stealing Hides. New Haven, Conn., Oct. 6.—The police here assert that brakemen of the Consolidated railroad have been murdering tramps caught steeling rides on cars of that line. It is said that ten bodies, all mangled by being run over by trains, had been found on the tracks of the Consolidated within the last six months. A man named Molony from Brooklin was shot twice and thrown from a train by the train hands, survived his injuries. He has given information to the authorities which have led to the arrest of a brakeman named Bean. The latter, according to the police, confessed that trainmen made it a practice to kill tramps found on their cars.

A. L. Mimms, of Tennessee, although unable to get either of the opposing candidates for Governor to meet him, is making a vote winning campaign in his State. * x * There are already more than seventy populist presidential electors in the field in the various states—enough to hold the ballance of power in the electoral college and control the election of Vice-President. * * * Members of the Peoples Party recieve abundant and courteous recognition in the October periodicals. Carl Snyder writes of Chairman Marion Butler in the Review of Reviews. Gen. Weaver contributes to the Chautauquan; a characteristically well written article on the “Battle of the standard.” Leslie’s Weekly tells all it could learn of Seaborn Wright, of Georgia, contrast to this, is an article by an Eastern theorist, The heading, “Are the Farmers Populists?” is answered in the negative with an assimine gravity that makes it very funny for intelligent readers.